Why the US wants to limit Israeli retaliation against Iran | DW News

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken on the phone for the first time in weeks. According to Israeli authorities, the talks focused on plans for a retaliatory strike against Iran
following its missile attack on Israel last week. After the phone call, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that the strike would be lethal, precise and surprising. President Biden has publicly urged Netanyahu
not to attack Iran's nuclear program or the country's oil infrastructure.

00:00 Biden and Netanyahu discuss Iran retaliation
00:42 Richard Walker, DW Chief International Editor
02:43 Balig Sladeen, Journalist

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[matthewslatter]

I hit you....but u can't hit me back 😂

[rudytagala]

Politicians' words sometimes mean the other way around ...

[mahalingamr]

Once the election is over US statement will be different.

[Didigetitwrong]

Why is no one mentioning Russia moving weapons and air defences into Iran.
Also the surrounding countries will not allow America to use their airfields.
You make it sound like Iran is defenceless?

[iznet]

IT'S INSANE HOW YOU KEEP ON TALKING ABOUT "PUPPET BIDEN" AS IF HE IS RUNNING ANYTHING 😂

[Alfadrottning]

My question is rather .. why is Germany backing Israel so strongly? guilt? or are there actual reasons then feeling guilty.

[JohnDera-is]

Why is he saying all this ??? Does he want Iran to Destroyed Israel ???

[Wiersq]

U.S. support has always been this way: it wants to control various regions, but it does not want to make any one party strong in each region. To achieve US goal, its main way is to stimulate confrontation in various regions to some extend. But if its allies affect U.S. interests, the United States will abandon it.
So when Israel wanted to use American weapons to retaliate against Iran's oil or nuclear facilities, while Iran vowed to retaliate against U.S. military bases, the United States backed down.

[Cameron-po]

I think that the larger concern for the US *isn't* actually war in the middle-east, but rather, the potential effects that could have on shipping - at least, that's probably the thought process as long as Ukraine remains the only other major conflict zone in the world. Ukraine is already considered, even to this day, a potential flashpoint for a broader conflict - but Gaza, up until recently, has been seen as more of a localized problem rather than a potential flashpoint for a major regional conflict in the middle east.

The US probably believes it can easily handle one major regional war, if it needed to get involved. If two major regional wars happened and the US needed to be involved in both, the US military would reach its capacity to comfortably deal with all its interests. And then, if a third conflict breaks out - that's where there would be real risk of a world war, if it's actually true that the biggest thing keeping the world in a state of relative peace is the US ability to respond with force to any challenge to the international status quo.

If it's not true, maybe the US will become embroiled in a big middle-eastern quagmire again and everyone will collectively agree not to act on their own territorial ambition while the largest military on earth is busy keeping angry militias from closing major shipping lanes to flex their military might. But, more likely than not, if the US gets occupied with too many problems at once, every country with territorial ambitions will probably start pressing their claims.

At the end of the day, the US doesn't *really* care who rules any of those countries, or how much short-to-medium-range firepower they have. They just don't want them to develop actual usable nukes and they don't want the shipping lanes close. If the US can get some oil without looking silly in the process, icing on the cake - but nothing makes American consumers angrier than shipping delays and price increases. Those are two things we could expect from a major regional war across the middle east. If shortages due to the war in Ukraine increased in addition to a closure of the Suez canal, that would lead to pretty intense price increases on basic goods as more US-grown wheat is exported to places that will pay anything because they need it, and as oil prices rise while countries who normally sourced their oil from the middle east find new sources in the wake reduced wartime production.

Ultimately, when other countries experience supply shock, they seek to satisfy their demand elsewhere. There's only so much supply - naturally if all of the pie is being eaten, suddenly the pie gets smaller, and everyone is still trying to get the same number of slices they had before - someone is going to need to live with less, and everyone is going to have to pay more. That's just how it is. War always makes the pie smaller for everyone. Always.

[observer-vhbm]

Commenter wrong. Israel accepted cease fire that Hamas rejected.

[edwardshadap]

Why the United States should direct Israel what it should do or not? Should Israel will just allow Iran to get away with these strikes ?? Is this justice??

[pamelastones]

I think that we must remember that there are many good people living in Iran and they are also against their country fighting Israel. All countries have good and bad people. We must wait and pray for wisdom. 🤔

[Straightdeal]

So what should Israel do, in the USA's opinion? Invite the Iranians over for tea in Jerusalem?

[AuralioCabal]

Why taking so long for Israeli response to 180 missle barrage? Because Mossad still procuring and PROGRAMING new Pagers and Walkie Talkies .😂😂😂

[eabc]

Biden must decide if he wants to be remembered like Churchill or Chamberlain

[adne]

*Israel🇮🇱 & USA🇺🇲 must respect ICC & soveregnity territorial integrity of Iran, Palestine (east Jerusalem, West Bank Gaza strip), Syria (Golan). end war & keep peace!*

[viveviveka]

The public face is one thing — what's happening behind the scenes is another.

In rare candid moments, politicians clearly admit to routinely operating this way, in two different, consciously distinct fields. They tailor public statements for the public and public opinion, and these statements often diverge considerably from what is really happening.

[BlueDino-br]

The US and Israel, and other nations need to work closely with the Iranian people that want regime change, democracy, secularism, and freedom in their country.

[Павел-ьшс]

Biden: - A whole company was supposed to come to me today - Pan Zelensky, Mark Rutte, Keir Starmer, Macron and other worthy people. But the elements prevented this. And I think it happened for the best.

[awahsteve]

Israel should ignore Biden and do what is best for the country